Monday, July 1, 2024

Tree Shaped Tombstones - On a Strange Road

I've been traveling down some unfamiliar roads this year.  Grand kid sporting events are one cause.  Also, helping the Homesteaders in a rural location to which there are several scenic alternate routes.  This takes me past little cemeteries I did not know existed.  This one is near Cameron, Wisconsin.

Here's a nice tree shaped tombstone.  


In memory of Wm Hubert.  It is starting to crumble a bit with age.


Although a bit less imposing, these side by side monuments are interesting.


A husband and wife with the last name of Rauchenstein.  This would translate roughly to "smoke rock" or "smoky castle".  Of course the text is in German.  Hier Ruht is "Here Rests".

Gattin Von Rauchenstein threw me a bit.  In a general sense adding Von to your name means not the literal, that you are from a place, but that you were some level of nobility.  But Gattin Von is just a bit different.

It just means "Wife of".  Oh, and down at the bottom "Ruhe im Frieden" is Rest in Peace.  A cemetery in Germany would be called a Friedhof, literally a "peaceful place".

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